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UNITED KINGDOM
Navy CP - May 1967

Daily Mirror, 10 May 1967

Cane is banned for Navy boys

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CANING of boy sailors has been abolished as a Navy punishment.
This was revealed in a Commons answer yesterday.

Mr. Gerry Reynolds, Minister of Defence (Administration), told
Mr. Harry Howarth (Lab., Wellingborough): "Caning has been
accepted for many years as one form of discipline of juniors in
the Royal Navy.

"It has not been a subject of complaint from
parents."

But Mr. Reynolds said the practice had been reviewed. The
Government had decided to bring the Navy "into line with the
other two Services in this respect."

Mr. Reynolds concluded: "The practice of caning has
therefore been abolished."